tttin Rogers
^Suddenly
Bch eville
Tea^ue Roger*. 39. of
v>ik v ille. died un
dternoon en
y Afheville hospital He
a heart attack.
H||} 3 native of the Fines
of Ha> wood County.
H?)trs f M Rogers and
Kc>i.> He had been
A>hev i'le about six
sis engaged in the con
a brother.
^^Laetiu' neinber of St.
^Kthodist i arch and the
^Egowstui- > ?
Hed two - ears with the
Mamies during World
serine- were held this
? idSi. Paul - Church with I
Joseph II Cottle, pastor. I
^B Janie- ( l isp ofTic-iat- I
Hal ?a> in Green Hill I
H j- hearers were I
< Suttles I
^Kjand. I-> le Voland, Bill I
^Hni Lester Hurgin, Jr. I
^B\ pallia'..; s were mem-1
^?the We-ley Fellowship I
Hg are the widow, the I
Hi Us Frances Burgin of I
^Hle. one daughter, Anna I
Hrr- the mother, Mrs. T.I
^K: five brothers, Farmer)
? (ConesWile, and yerlin. I
Beer and Do.vce Rogers. I
Bite die; and six sisters. I
^Brrii Beasley. Mrs. R. pi
T F Franks, Mrs I
^Bachelor, and Mrs. Jean I
H of .Newport News, Vip-1
Hi Mrs Et nest Suttles of I
Browning
At 87
?
services for Mrs. Har
are Browning, 87, of
L" who died in the Hay
nty Hospital Friday night
iof illness, were held in
of a son, Hugh Brown
clwood Sunday, at 2 p.m.
J M Woodard officiat
iriel was in Green Hill
ers were Allie Moore,
lehaffey. B. B. Rector,
leehan, Frank Saunders
iirtis.
owning was the daughter
t Mr. and Mrs. Rowland
f Haywood County,
ig are three sons, Rufus
of Hazelwood and Claude
of Waynesvflle, Route 1;
dchildren; and five great
d Funeral Home was in
EATHS
HATTIE FRANKLIN
ttie Moore Franklin, 56.
iville. died at her home
lens Creek Road, Satur
ng after an extended ill
services were held in
1 Creek Baptist Church
3 30 p m. with the pastor.
D Sawyer, officiating,
>' the Rev. Thomas E.
ormer pastor.
in Crawford Memor
hephews were pallbear
bers of the young ladies
Itool class of the church
w bearers.
* include two sons, W. O.
'id A. Hayes Franklin
Vl"e: one (laughter. Mrs.
ollender of Brookhaven,
ststcrs. Mrs. L. O. Coker
"Me. Ga , and Mrs. AT. L.
of Westminister, S. C.;
(r W V. Moore of Mari
?nd five grandchildren,
d Funeral Home was in
?fTTI.F.S INFANT
^B service1; for Charles
^Buulev infant son of Mr.
? Joe, who
^Be Haywood County Hos
^B'(!j\. were held in Keen
^Bpmt Church on Meadow
^Badi-un County Saturday
Btor. the Rev, C. W. Bal
^Bated and burial was in
cemetery.
B>t in addition to the
^Bre four sisters. Misses!
^B?ry Ann. Hattie M. and 1
^B?e Suttles of the home; I
^Bnal grandparents, Mr.l
^BUe Suttle, of Joe; and
^Brnat grandfather, Ed
el 11 wood County.
^B funeral Home was in
?<x?(l Boosters
ftt On Thursday
^Bfclwood Roosters Club
^B|* regular monthly meet
?^ay night. May 14, at 7
? Hazel wood Presbyterian
^B' are a-ked to notify the
^B f \ Williamson, if
? attend.
^?hlue" Robinson is presi
^B&ritain uses about i".
^?nuirh tea per capita as
^^pnited Stat< '
?
| Welfare Department Officials Hold Open House
An open house to obsers'e the opening of new offices was held Friday afternoon by the Haywood County Welfare Department. No*
located in the Noland Building, the Department has larger quarters than it formerly occupied. About 75 people visited the offices dur
ing the day. From left are Mrs. Bill Burgin, case worker; Mrs. Jack Klopp. child welfare case worker; Miss Pauline Williams, case
worker for the blind; Mrs.. Sam Queen, superintendent; Mrs. Ken neth Lowe iservlngi. clerical worker: Mrs. Herbert Smalley, clerical
worker; Miss Jo Mathews, case work assistant; Mrs. Wanda Clark, case worker; and Mrs. Clara Rippeloe, case worker.
(Mountaineer Photo).
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Hospital Patient Tells
How He Escaped From 40
Robbers While In China
lit. jesse uwen, a reurea
Baptist Missionary, of Spartanburg,
and now a patient at the Haywood
County Hospital, is telling friends
many interesting stories of his
work in China, which began in
1900.
In a few reminiscences this
morning. Dr. Owen said:
"By the way?Charles Owen was
a roommate of mine at College, I
was born in Transylvania County,
and at that time the nearest home
was ten miles distant from my par
ent's home, and I was the first boy
to enter college from that area.
'Tn 1899 I had a speaking en
gagement here at First Baptist
Church on 'missions' and in the
autuumn of that year I went out
to China.
"A few of my experiences in
China may be of interest to you.
It was the 29th of June in 1900, in
the twilight of evening that I found
myself surrounded by forty rob
bers, with guns on their shoulders
ready to kill me.1* I was right in
front of the village Inn, and turn
ed into the Inn, with the robbers
following me. I heard the Inn
keeper exact a promise from these
soldiers not to kill me in his Inn.
because that would ruin his busi
ness. His idea was that the for
eigner's spirit would remain in the
Inn, and no Chinaman would dare
spend the night there any more
About 2:30 in the morning I dis
covered that the robbers were all
asleep on the dry ground in front
of my bedroom door. I bundled up
my belongings and stepped over
those sleeping robbers. I got out
side, put on a white raincoat, sat
on my donkey and started my es
cape, but would have rushed right
into the arms of boxer soldiers 'the
Chinese organization to banish all
foreigners from China', but for the
fact they saw that white something
coming, but did not see the donkey
I was riding, and they raised a
great yell thinking I was a spook?
that gave me a chance to get away
from the robbers.
"Reverend Henry W. Luce was a
Presbyterian Missionary in Chan
tung China. His wife was a beau
tiful niece of ELihu Root, the great
American lawyer. In 1900, when
the boxer rebellion was on. when
It learned that the boxers were ac
tually in the City of Tungchow.
burning and killing. Mr. Luce
went to pieces and was not able
to control his nerves enough to
take care of his wife and their two
children. Henry, the huband of
Clara Booth Luce, was two years
years old, and a little baby girl,
five weeks old. So it fell to my lot
to take his place and get them away
from the danger on to a Chinese
Man-of-War which had rebelled
against the Empress Dowager's
government and was in the harbor
at Tungchow, protecting us for
eigners there. So for two hours I
carried the little baby wrapped up
in a blanket, and carried little
Henry most of the way, and helped
Mrs. Luce along. A spruce-pine
slab turned, flat side down, rest
ing one end on the jetty, and the
other on the rocking row-boat, and
I had to take those three people
all at the same time across that
slab Into the little row-boat. When
we had gone in the row-boat to the
steam launch, and gotten the moth
er and the little boy into the
launch, I handed the little girl
over, and asked the Missionary lady
to ojien up and let her have some
, fresh air, and then I discovered
that I had been carrying her up
side-down all that time.
My wife, of Just a few hours, was
one of the ladies on board of that
Chinese ship, but I was sent back
to the Missionary Home to protect
our interests there. Late in the
afternoon the Captain of this Chi
nese Man-of-War discovered that
there was a bride there, and imme
diately set things into operation for
a first-rate wedding banquet, and
when the party was seated the only
one absent was the groom.
"... I think that will be enough
of the Chinese experiences. . .
My father and Colonel Alley,
father of Judge Felix Alley, were
comrades in the American Civil
War. My father was greatly op
posed to secession, and always a
Republican, and he did not go to
the war until he was conscripted,
but all of the time he was opposing
the roving band of robbers roving
through the mountains. Colonel
Alley told me, in his last days, that
when he returned from the Civil
War, the only bit of property he
had he owed to ray father except
his land and immovable property,
because my father learned that the
band of robbers were heading to
ward his place, and hired a boy on
a young mule to run across a path
of some 24 miles across the moun
tains and notify Mrs. Alley and the
older children to get things out of
sight. These robbers planned to
get rid of my father in the shortest
way. But he somehow found out
about their plan, and contacted a
band of soldiers, not very far way.
and when the robbers galloped up
with their guns in readiness and J
surrounded the home, and demand-'
^d that my father come out, my I
mother assured them that he was
not there, but their leader had'
just ordered his men to go in and
search the house, when other,
horse's hoofsteps were heard, and
the band of soldiers rushed up and
disarmed and bound the robber
leader, and started them to Tenn-:
essee to enroll them in the Army.
My mother noticed that only the
robber-leader did not have his feet j
tied together on the body of the
horse, but a rope was around his t
neck, and they had not been gone
but a few minutes when someone
came running in and said, 'that
robber leader is hanging to a limb
out yonder in the forest, lest than
a half-mile from here.' My mother j
and my older brothers, then half- j
grown fellers, went out and one of
them climbed the tree, cut the rope,
and my mother and the boys digged
a pit and rolled the robber into it
and covered him with dirt and
stones. I was afraid of that place
at night, 'till I was a grown young j
man. My father was a Magistrate J
for 60 years. ? After returining he
never turned anyone away who
wished a meal, or a night's lodging,
and before his death, he was run
ning very short in finances, but he
insisted that he never charged kny
mody for the hospitality that he;
extended, nor had he ever turned
anyone way. He took up a good
large tract of Cherokee Indian land,
and George Wishlngton and Charlie
Hornbuckle, two Indian leaders,
were good friends of my father's,
and had some very remarkable ex
periences as boys as they played
together. My father's Jiome on
that Indian land, formerly, was the
last residence for ten miles, go
ing directly west. I was the oldest
of the boys, but as a boy, .decided
that I must get an education and
became the first native of Tran
sylvania County to graduate from
a Senior College.
"Having lost my health complete
ly in China, and sent home as a
permanent invalid. I worked with
our Home Mission Board in the
mountains for eight years; more
than 3.000 of our young men and
our *young women dedicated their
lives to home and foreign mission
work in connection with my labors
I had conducted the 75,000,000 '
Campaign in these Western Coun-1
ties of North Carolina. My terri-'
tory was co-terminous with the
Congressional District. To my sur
prise. one morning, a little before
the time to nominate candidates,
the Chairman of the Republican
and the Chairman of the Democra
tic organizations, came together
and waited on me, proposing that1
both parties would nominate me to
Congress, if I would accept it.
"Of course.I told them I would
have to finish the job I was on be
fore I could consider anything else,
and I am not through with that
job."
Should Old
Acquaintance
PITTSBURGH <AP>?When Paul
Benson was serving with the U. S
Army in Germany he frequently
went to Air Force dances at Frank
furt. One of his favorite partners
was pretty red-haired Erna Marie
l-ooblich of Grosskrotzenberg.
Benson came home in 1946 and
resumed work with the Naturali
zation and Immigration Service in
Pittsburgh. His job included in
terviewing applicants for citizen
ship. Recently he was examining
a list of applications and noticed
one from Grosskrotzenberg. Ben-1
son arranged to handle the inter
view and asked about Erna.
It wasn't necessary, however, for
the Mrs. Davis applying for citizen
ship turned out to be Erna, now
married to a railroad worker and
living in Pittsburgh.
Infant Alarm
MISSOUUA, Mont. IAP)-*-Don't
groan. Pappy, when that cry-baby
wakes you up in the middle of the
night?he may save your life.
Mr. and Mrs. Felix Melon were
asleep in their home here when
the kitchen refrigerator caught Are.
But their bawling baby woke them
before the fire spread. ?
Masons To Confer
Degree On Tuesday
The Waynesville Lodge, 2fi9 AK
and AM, will confer the fellows
craft degree at 7:30 o'clock Tues
day night at the Masonic Hall.
All Masons Including visitors are
invited to attend.
Two Students
To Present
Piano Recital
Stanford Massie and SvUia
Newell will be presented in a
piano recital at the Hazel wood
Elemental-) School auditorium. J
Thursday. May 14, at 8 p. m.. un- j
der the sponsorship of the Way- j ?
nesville Music Club.
Both pianists are students of
the Wav nesville High School and
have shown unusual talent in niu^
lc. Thev are now studying with '
Kichard Anderson. Young Mr. Mas- j
sie, a member of the senior class j
has served as accompanist for the
high school chorus for the past '
two years. He is also pianist for ;
the Haywood Count) Sub-district ,
of the Methodist Youth Fellow- |
ship. v
Miss Newell. 2 member of the
junior class, is.piunist for the
Crabtree Methodist Church,
The program Thursday evening
will include the following numbers
played by Mr. Massie: Prelude in
C Minor by Bach, Sonata in F
Major by Mozart. The Engulfed
Cathedral by Debussy, and For
gotten Fairy Tales and The Eagle
by MacDowell.
Miss New ell's numbers will be ?
Three-part Invention NO. 2 by
Bach, Sonata in C Major by Haydn.
Intermezzo Op. llti, No. 11 by
Brahms, Preludes Op. 28. Nos. 1. 1
9, 12 by Chopin. Perpetual Motion
by Poulcnc, and Hush Hour in
Hong Kong by Chasins.
The first bright brothers ap--!
planes attained a maximum speed
of about 50 miles an hour.
Because white shirts sometimes
cause a glare on TV screens, pas
tel colors usually are worn before j
the cameras.
? R
To Give Recital
u-!t* t" ' -
Staniaid Mj-.i. senior of the Waynesvitle Townshin High School,
and Sylvia Newell, a member uf the junior class. will be presented i
in a piano recital at the Hazelwood Elementary school auditorium,
Thursday, May 14. at 8 p.m. The event Is under the auspices of
the Waynosville Music Club. Hotli pianists are students of Rich
ard Anderson.
Ratcliffe Cove CDP
Meets Tuesday Ni?ht
The RatcliiTe Cove CDP will
meet Tuesday night. May 12. at 1
7:45 at the Baptist Church. Mr. and
Mrs. Ward Kirkpatrick and family
will be in charge ?f the devotions
The progrant will feature recrea
tion. and refreshments will be
served.
Hugh Ratcliffe is president and
will preside.
it is estimated that the United
States uses 700 million pounds of
cocoa beans a year.
Directional Microphone
NEW YORK (AP>?One of the
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es is designed to withstand' tele
vision gunshot blasts yet is highly
sensitive. Designed by RCA. en
gineers for TV. radio and film stu
dios, it admits sounds coming from
the front but rejects those from
sides and rear, making it highly
direct ional
The designers say it can with
stand the blast of a 45 calibre pis
tol fired only five feet away, mak*
ing it valuable for use in who-dun
its and other drama.
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